Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
It actually appeared in the 2024 Edition of Visit Fort Wayne’s Relocation Guide.
And while I think its really funny to put how close you are to other bigger cities on the cover of a city’s relocation guide, I don’t like being mean, so here are some reasons why you might want to visit and/or even move to Fort Wayne.
Full data below:
You can watch a video of the process below:
From the map author:
It was created for the following Map Men Video:
The map above is based on the work of K. George, Cornish, in: M. Ball (ed.), (1993) The Celtic Languages.
It shows the gradual loss of the Cornish language and its replacement by English from 1350 to 1750.
More about the process:
I’m personally a big fan of AI and frequently use it to analysis data, transcribe and translate and even help write map explainers.
But one thing AI still can’t seem to do is make good (or accurate) maps from scratch as the following 20 examples all show.
Most of the following maps come from @ChatgptLunatics aka AI being dumb (follow them for more AI related humour).
And while I didn’t personally create any of the maps below (or more accurately enter the prompts that made them), they very much reflect my own experience using AI to try and create maps.
The maps below compare how many school shooting incidents and deaths there are in the US compared to various European countries.
I have is published all the data below along with notes on sources and methodology.